One in 10 deaths among working age adults is due to excessive drinking, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC report released Thursday, June 26, states excessive alcohol use has led to around 88,000 deaths per year from 2006 to 2010. 8.3 percent of deaths in Indiana during that time were attributable to alcohol. That’s a total of 1,168 deaths during the course of four years.
Indiana’s rate of alcohol-attributable deaths from 2006 to 2010 was 25 deaths per 100,000 people. New Mexico had the highest rate of alcohol-attributable deaths during this time span at 51 deaths per 100,000. New Jersey had the lowest rate at around 19 deaths per 100,000.
Seventy percent of the alcohol-attributable deaths nationally involved working age adults. Five percent of the total deaths involved those under the minimum legal drinking age of 21. CDC adds 70 percent of the deaths involved males.
These deaths were due to the health effects of drinking too much over time or over a short period of time. Drinking too much over a long period of time may result in breast cancer, liver disease and heart disease. Drinking too much over a short period of time may result in violence, alcohol poisoning or motor vehicle crashes.
Excessive drinking includes binge drinking, heavy drinking and alcohol use by pregnant women and those under the age of 21. The CDC describes binge drinking as four or more drinks on an occasion for women and five or more for men. Heavy drinking is eight or more drinks a week for women and 15 or more for men.
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